Editorial Assistant Rotational Program

The Editorial Assistant Rotational Program’s mission is to accelerate the professional growth and development of Early Career Editorial professionals through exposure to a multitude of assignments, apprenticeship style learning, and accelerated responsibility. We are looking for driven, tenacious, and pragmatic team members who have the desire and potential to rise over time into a significant contributor within the Editorial team and our broader direct-to-consumer lifestyle business.

This program offers the opportunity to explore multiple areas of the business including:, Licensing \& Contracts, Book Selections, Member Experience Programs, Book Merchandising \& Inventory, Allurial (our Romantasy business), and Industry Relations. After approximately 2 years, team members will have the opportunity to be placed in a more specialized role based on business needs, individual performance, and interests demonstrated over the previous years.

Success in this program will be achieved by approaching work with the following characteristics:

• Making High Quality Work: Learning how to organize, prioritize, and check work for efficiency, accuracy, and proper formatting.
• Getting Things Done: Exhibits sense of urgency \& follow through in assigned tasks; proactively communicates status updates of tasks.
• Possessing Good Judgment: Demonstrates upward trajectory in thinking through steps of work thoroughly and logically.
• Being A Good Learner: Receives feedback well and incorporates it to improve.

What you will do…

• Book Selections: Assist with the Selections process by maintaining our book database, drafting editorial copy, and conducting data analysis of book performance.
• Editorial Operations:Draft and execute licensing agreements, input Editorial content into company systems, and assist with components of hardcover and audiobook production.
• Department of Cultural Arts \& Sciences:Support the coordination and execution of cross-functional business initiatives, including original print acquisition and our Collections.
• Allurial:Assist with Editorial initiatives for our Romantasy business by assisting with the production of custom editions, and analyzing book data and member insights.
• Member Experience:Project manage Member Experience initiatives, optimize box rate and books per box through testing and reporting, and serve as the voice of the member by synthesizing platform insights.
• Inventory \& Merchandising: Create monthly merchandising plans for our titles, aligned with inventory planning, to optimize the book sales funnel.
• Reading \& Recommending:Across all rotations you will read a high volume of books across genres, recommending titles to be considered for BOTM selection.

About you…

• Strong work ethic; ability to learn quickly, take on new challenges, and apply feedback
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong prioritization skills that allow you to keep projects on track
• Ability to do math and conduct data analysis
• Strong writing and proofreading skills, as well as excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface comfortably with people at all levels
• Great judgment, with the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and care
• Fast and avid reader with a deep knowledge of contemporary commercial fiction

Base Salary: $70,000

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